The danger of stupid idiots. If there is one thing Nigeria needs now, in the face of today’s crisis, it is people who can speak truth to power as we are preyed on by state capture, creeping fascism and the criminal hijack of politics, and a collapse of the checks and balances of the estates…
By Bola Bolawole [email protected] 0807 552 5533 A new terrorist organization called Lakurawa has entered the Nigerian space! It operates in the North-west, particularly in the old Sokoto state made up of Sokoto, Kebbi, and Zamfara states. In the North-east we have Boko Haram. In North-central and the Middle Belt, we have the murderous Fulani…
During the pandemic a record number of Americans turned entrepreneurs—sending new business applications to soaring heights. But everyone knows running a business is difficult, and now there’s some new data to validate the sentiment. This chart tracks the survival rate of all private American companies born in 2013, categorized by industry. Figures for this chart are…
In July 2024, shortly after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated that he’d been separately targeted in two attempts as well. Both men were arrested with guns roughly 20 minutes away from Tesla’s Texas HQ. Given that these Big Tech head honchos are running companies whose revenues rival the GDPs of small countries,…
If the Nobel Peace Prize were less political, more objective and based on direct efforts to achieve peace, Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari should have been an awardee long ago. One of the lows in human history was the refusal to prevent or stop the 1994 Rwanda Genocide even when humanity was in a very good…
Depending on where you live, it can cost a lot more, or a lot less, to travel the world. While passports unlock global mobility, how much countries charge for this essential identification document differs significantly across nations. This infographic shows the 10 least expensive passports in the world in U.S. dollars and their validity periods.…
The victory of Donald Trump has been described in many ways by many pundits. Some say it is a triumph for the working class when others are saying it is the failure of the Harris campaign to make the case. Some are saying it is immigration while others are battening down the logic of hyper-inflation.…
Nigeria's economy is charting a course from the tempestuous waters of the “Red Zone,” a realm of acute instability filled with uncertainty and wavering hope. Now, it navigates the “Amber Zone,” a twilight of cautious recovery, where the faint glow of progress meets the shadows of persistent challenges. Yet, the horizon beckons with the promise…
BY TONNIE IREDIA No one disputes the fact that many problems currently confronting Nigeria’s judiciary are caused by a few bad eggs in the system as it is in many other organizations. If those few bad eggs are not quickly expelled or aggressively beaten into line, the cancer they have attracted into that arm of…